The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1927, Page 1

LABOR MUST ACT! SACCO AND { VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! ) | FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, | be sure to get them both. THE DAILY Wo Entered as serond-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., wider the act of March 3, ads 1878, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 145. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Ovunde New York, by mail, $6.00 per r. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1927 PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents Current Events By T. J. O’FLaHeErty, ‘WO royal palaces that housed the pretender to the throne of France and ex-king Manuel of Portugal have seen their best days. Both were lo- cated in London. One of the royal estates now plays the role of gravel pit and the other harbors superan-' nuated cable and telegraph officials. \The pretender died and the Portu- jguese parasite is living in the sunny south of France. The day of kings ' by divine right is past; the day of C kings by right of money is here, but ~ not for long, we hope. * * * AVAGE sentences are being im- posed on the striking furriers, ar- rested on the picket line. Because the pickets refused to accept the dis- trict attorney’s conception of what constitutes legal picketing they are | being given heavy jail sentences, with { additional terms of imprisonment in- flicted on them, for contempt of court, on account of showing dis- \ pleasure at* the severity of the sen- tences. So militant workers are sent to the workhouse for exercising their legal rights. { or two between friends? | * ; alters EF Harry Sinclair, oil millionaire, has been incarcerated for contempt of court over the Teapot Doms liti- gation, we are in ignorance oi the fact. Sinclair entered into a con- spiracy with A. B. Fall and other government officials to rob the na- tion of some of its oil lands. To date all the gentlemen involved are at ‘liberty, and enjoying more than their oro rata share of the national wealth. What is sauce for the capitalist gan- i ‘der is something else again for the proletarian goose. | yas ee \ CCORDING to a Washington dis- patch, Joe Bearak, a Boston lawyer and member of the Socialist Party, y has been congratulated by Secretary of Labor Davis for his work in help- ing to smash the needle trades unions - .by ousting the progressives and Com- “gunists. Davis, in recognition of Bearak’ worth as a strikebreaker, wave the shyster a copy of the history of his life. Davis rose or sunk from puddler to politician and is the mil- lionaire owner of the Loyal Order of Moose, Davis’s contract with the or- der puts one dollar in his treasury for every sucker that joins the Moose. A compliment from that kind of a fellow should be appreciated by Joe. * * * EN if Morris Sigman, president \ of the I. L. G. U. should succeed in completely destroying the union he will not be compelled to waste a lot of shoe leather looking for a job. He has a farm and amusement park in Iowa and his training as an anti- Communist barker should serve him in good stead when he stands outside the entrance to his main tent and ’ urges the potential customers to walk right in and see the curiosities, a ne ; * a Wate one socialist is being com- plimented for his union-smashing activities and another right winger is dividing his mental energies be- tween the union of which he is a} president and his amusement park,| one hundred big industrial leaders are | meeting in San Francisco to fight trade unionism. They are going to give every worker a “chance to be happy” by freeing them from the protection of their unions. This is the kind of freedom that will extract more beans from the workers’ pot. While the reactionary labor bureau-| erats and the socialists are using up, their energies fighting the Commun-! ists the bosses are going ahead with their union-smashing plans. | * * * | ENERAL FENG YU-HSIANG, the so-called “Christian General” has turned his back on the Chinese rev-| _ olution and joined up with Chiang) _ Kai-shek and the foreign imperial- ists, This renegade will now turn his sword against the masses whose e ‘sacrifices have made possible the _ success so far registered by the rev- olution. The lure of imperialist gold was too strong for the double-crosser Feng, whose record as a betrayer is fas black as the blackest of Chinese militarists. ——— * * * ‘ENG’S treachery following on the | * heels of that of Chiang Kai-shek, is the most severe blow yet suffered _ by the revolution and means of a def- inite setback to the cause of liberation. The Chinese bourgeoisie have done what their prototypes have done in other countries under similar cir- u mees.’ They have sold out to ign tyrants rather than sce the ted masses in their own country 3 x. But no matter how long ruggle will last the workers and \ of China will persist until | have settled accounts with the 8 and with the Fengs, But what is a little law! BUKHARIN BRANDS! FENG TRAITOR TO CHINESE REVOLT Says Left Wing Must | Purge Kuomintang MOSCOW, July 1.—With the treachery of General Feng Yu-hsiang |and the consolidation of native big business interests the task of libera- ting China lies entirely in the hands |of the workers, peasants and petty | bourgeoisie, according to an article \in the Pravda by N. Bukharin. | N, Bukharin’s article follows: “The bloc of Feng Yu-hsiang and |Chiang Kai-shek means a further step in the separation of the class {forces of China. Chang Tso-lin’s camp is the camp of feudal reaction; this camp is actually in the descend- }ent. The second camp, the camp of |the liberal. bourgeois counterrevolu- | tion, at a given stage in the develop- \ment of events in China, is the victori- {ous force holding quite a peculiar | place in the struggle of classes. | The class basis of the general’s |coups is to be sought in the passing jof the liberal bourgeoisie to the | counter-revolution and in the agrar- {ian revolution of the Chinese pea- ‘sants. The bloc of Chiang Kai-shek jand Feng Yu-hsiang and other gen- jerals plus (eventually) the left wing lof the “Fengtienese”’ such is the | bourgeois bloc from a military aspect. | At present this bloc is the strongest | of the struggling camps. The | strength of this liberal counter-revo- |lutionary camp consists in the num- jerical predominance of its armed {forces and its political position as ; compared with the political position ‘of the feudal camp. The bourgeois jcamp already tends to amalgamate |‘ with the feudal reaction and im- | perialism; however it is in a certain {measure still independent—on the | surface. Liberals are masquerading as the! true liberators of China, as distinct from Communists whom they call ‘agents of the “Russian State.” One of | the strong points of the liberal coun- ‘ter-revolution is that it has its agents lin third camp, namely, Wuhan. Feng’s Betrayal. Wuhan’s weak point is that it has inot sufficient armed forces. With | Feng’s betrayal, Wuhan lost the best part of its military forces, while the {remaining part under “ang Shen-cn |is likewise unreliable. The reliable military units are insufficient num- ‘ erically. Furthermore, both in the Central Committee of the Kuomimtang and {the government are Umang hai- |shek’s spies and wavering petty bourgeois politicians, a weak ununi- fied political leadership in Wuhan, in aistinction to growing mass move- ment, is a most vulnerable point. | 1 the Communist international’s directing line were practically ful- ‘filled the situation would not be so |dangerous for Wuhan. | The strength of Wuhan in a power- ‘ful movement of workers and pea- | sants. This revolution will throw away |thé wavering prattlers and the en- lemy’s spies and wavering terrified “leaders”, So far the camp of the bourgeois counter-revolution has been fighting against feudalism and to some ex- |tent, against the imperialists. At ithe same time it acts against the | workers and peasants of its own na- | tion, thereby becoming the henchman }of the counter-revolution, Must Mobilize Workers. The substance of the actual class battles is the struggle for hegemony in the bourgeois democratic revolu- tion between the working class and liberal bourgeoisie or otherwise, which amounts the same, the struggle be- tween the liberal and plebian de- yelopments of the Chinese revoiution. The more dangerous actual situation, the more energetic must be the sup- port of the third camp, the more en- ergetic the mobilization of the workers, the peasants and the petty bourgeois masses. The policy of the Communist In- ternational: mobilize the masses; loosen. the agrarian revolution; toosen the labor movement, struggle against the traitors. Wuhan must repel all compromising tendencies on the part of the semi-agents of Chiang 'Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang; it must steer in the direction of clear- ing the Kuomintang of these waver- ing elements. It is necessary that it really consolidate the Jacobin “pleb- ian” cadres whick can fight to the end against all obstacles and defeats. Feng Yu-hsiang has passed into the camp of the enemies of the peoples’ revolution and against him must be declared a relentless war. The tac- tics of compromising with Feng and company could be based only on an absolutely liquidatory attitude to- wards the agrarian revolution and to- wars the struggle for the plebian way of China’s development. Even though Wuhan should fall (Continued on Page Two) Striking furriers leaving Jefferson Market Court just after Magistrate Ewald imposed sentences of jail and fine on women pickets, The judge was hissed, and the police attacked the crowd in court. AT JEFFERSON MARKET COURT | || British Right Wingers Try to Smash Alliance Of Anglo-USSR Workers July LONDON, 1—That the right wing leaders of British Trade Union Congress are taking | | steps to break the Anglo-Ru n |] Committee is indicated in a re- | port of the labor correspondent of the Westminster Gazette. | Several days ago the All Union || Central Committee of Trade | Unions representing more than ten |] million organized workers of the Soviet Union, accused the British \| right wing leaders of betraying | their labor movement and of at- || tempting to break the Anglo-Rus- sian Committee. If the reports in the Westminster Gazette are correct the guess of the All Union Central Committee is correct. ENGINEERS FIRE Mass Arrests and Mass Jail Sentences tor Picketing a Challenge to Labor Movement The jail sentences handed out enmasse to striking fur workers following the mass arrests for picketing and which include men and women indiscriminately put squarely to the labor movement of New York City, the labor movement of the United States as a whole and to all elements outside the labor movement proper, but who believe in, sympathise with and support the aims and struggles of the working class certain questions which cannot be evaded. The issues are clear: In the face of brutal exercise of the police power of the city in an arbitrary manner, against workers who are break- ing no law, and on a scale unknown heretofore, : with the open purpose of destroying the right to picket in a struggle between. bosses and workers, will the officers of the New York Central Labor Council continue to avoid making a public protest to the authorities coupled with a demand that this onslaught on the fundamental rights of unions cease) In the face of a state supreme court decision legalia®g picketing—a decision secured at the cost of much mottfy, time, effort and sacrifice on the part of the labor move- ment—will the officials of the labor movement of this state permit hundreds of workers—hundreds, we repeat, and the court records show it—to be jailed for any term a judge sees fit to fix for upholding the right of the unions to picket? With bands of mercenaries assaulting striking workers and pickets, gangsters whom even the capitalist press is forced to admit are in the pay of the reactionary forces who are trying to break the morale of the strikers and destroy their union, with the fur district occupied by police and thugs, a state of siege in force so far as the strikers are concerned—will the organized workers of New York and the rest of the United States remain silent? We do not think so. Neither do we believe that passivity, in effect acquiescence in the stoolpigeon tactics of trade union reaction which has produced such things as union officials acting as informers and prosecutors against striking workers, will prevent protest from the circle of labor sym- pathisers whose assistance to the labor movement has been of tremendous value in times of crisis especially. We wish to warn the labor movement, in’ no spirit of hostility to those who do not agree with us on issues and methods, but in the most sober and emphatic manner that what it is witnessing in the furriers’ strike in New York today is a forerunner of the methods which will be employed on a nationwide scale if the bosses and city, state and na- tional authorities meet no organized and determined re- _ sistance from tht labor movement to mass arrest and mass jail sentences. We say this with the knowledge that in America and every other country any concerted attack, and particularly (Continued on Page Two) RIGHT WING PLOT FOUR OFFICIALS TO JAIL FURRIER ON BANK CHARGES PICKETS EXPOSED \Prenter Rushed Out by = | Abolition of Office \Unity Committee Tells ), of “Forward” Gloating CLEVELAND, July 1.—The Broth- erhood of Locomotive Engineers to- Calling upon the needle workers to 5 ‘ RRS Sie of the furriers, the Unity Committee ‘A pre’ ge jof the Fur, Cloak and Dressmakers’ [MiB iehw ee Gaertn anes ee 1 Alvanley Johnston, once a caller on Joint Boards, yesterday distributed | : thousands of leaflets in the market | ‘he Greats Noreen “Bersosd, \aute: | day had returned to the original meth- | jod of officering the organization, fol- | SACCO, VANZETTI SECRETLY TAKEN TO DEATH HOUSE Brutal Action Despite | 30-Day Reprieve BOSTON, July 1 Nicola Saceo | and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, after seven \years of torture following their con- | viction on framed-up charges of mur- | der were early this morning secretly | and unexpectedly transferred from the Norfolk coun’ 1 in Dedham to the Charlestown Despite the {nounced by Gov. Aly jnesday the two worke away in an automobile | guarded by armed offic: Blow to Defense. heavils- A belated “explanation” was made in which it was said that “the trans- fer was made to conform to the statutes” which require that those facing execution must be placed in the death house 10 days before the | date set by the presiding judge. For several days prior to the re- spite the Boston Sacco-Vanzetti De- fense Committee repeatedly urged governor not to permit the removal }of the two men to the Charlestown | prison. The latest action comes as a jheavy blow to the Committee inas- |much as they assumed that the re- | spite would automatically block the |threatened transfer to the death | house. * * Labor Protest Grows. Labor has one month more to make |its protests against the impending | execution of Nicola Sacco and Bar- jtolemeo Vanzetti. Thirty days more |must be ticked off by the big peni- pointing out the treachery of the right wing. It reads as follows: “Three hundred fifty workers, men matically was placed in*command of | tentiary clock before the two Italian the B. of L. E. affairs | radicals go to the electric chair. An The deposed officers are W. B.| executive order by Gov. Fuller de- Prenter, president; L. G. Griffing,|!ays the throwing of the switch till | August 10th, first vice president and treasurer; H. P. Daugherty, second vice president yand, C, E, Lindquist, secretary. /and women, have been sentenced to | jail terms ranging from 5 days to 6 }months. What was their-crime? " i rs “Even the police who testified} Trastees Named. ‘against them admitted that their} Three trustees were named tem- crime consisted of nothing more vio-jporarily by Johnson to take over the lent than that of peacefully picketing }management of the brotherhood’s fi- | in the fur market. |mancial and business enterprises with “The real reason why these work-/|the exception of the pension and in- lers were sent to jail is because IT | surance departments and report semi- WAS REQUESTED BY SIGMAN |annually to the organization's advis- |AND MCGRADY. The judge was ory board. nothing but a puppet in their hands. | Prenter Holds On. |Sigman, McGrady and the Forward| Prenter has already signified his have determined to break the furriers’ | intention to fight expulsion from the strike at any cost. The time has ap- | office which gave him control over parently arrived when they who were | all the brotherhood’s extensive but |at one time so-called labor leaders are | unremunerative (to the union) busi- now the leaders of the police and the| ness ventures into scab coal mining | courts. j and class collaboration banking, real “Day after day gangsters are/eState, etc. y caught in the murderous attempts on| The investigation committee the lives of our workers. These gang-| pointed by the convention to look into sters have long criminal records as | Shady deals connected with the mil- |safe-crackers, robbers and murderers. | lions of dollars invested recommended |These men of the underworld are; the removal of all the higher officers (Continued on Page Three) | of the union, |World Tourists Sail For Russia July 14; |Home; PromisesCensors Last Call for Visas|Of Boston More Battle The time is short before the sailing | (By Federated Press) ap-| ‘Upton Sinclair Returns | date for the six weeks’ trip to Lenin- | grad and Moscow, organized by the World Tourists, of 41 Union Square, Room 803. They are off on July 14th! Many Americans have been curious and anxious to visit Russia for a long time, but the difficulty of getting a Before returning to his home in Pasadena, Calif., Upton Sinclair told the Federated Press than he would give the Boston censors another fight this Fall when the book clerk who sold the banned novel Oil is put on trial on a charge of violating the visa in the absence of a Soviet Con- sulate in the U. S. A. has forced them to postpone the trip. Now is your opportunity. An ar- rangement hetween the U. S. S. R. Society for Cultural Relations and the World Tourists has made it possible to guarantee a visa for everyone who joins this tour. obscenity law. fused to arrest him. His next move was to parade through the streets as a sandwich man, selling a special Fig- leaf Edition of the book, with the out with black figleaves. A. & C. Coni, publishers of Oil, say { What the Federal Indictment Means Under the Federal Grand Jury indictment against The DAILY WORKER and members of the staff, the four defendants, J. Louis Engdahl, William F. Dunne, Alexander Bittelman and Bert Miller, and also David Gordon and Joseph Kalar, are subject to the following pen- alties under the federal statutes: On the first count Five Years’ Imprisonment, or $5,000 Fine or Both. On the second count Five Years’ Imprisonment, or $5,000 Fine or Both. On the third count Two Years’ Imprisonment, or $10,000 Fine or Both. Thousands of dollars of bail will be required. In addition to this the mailing privileges of The DAILY WORKER may be revoked at any The cost of the proceedings in the Federal Courts time that the federal authorities see fit. will run into thousands of dollars. Comrades, we understand the intent and the purpose of the attack against The DAILY We realize that American capitalism is facing such a serious sit- uation that it seeks to rid itself of its most dangerous opponent, The DAILY WORKER. The whole weight of the United States government is being brought down upon us. bring the whole weight of the labor movement down upon the reactionary forces which are For the next few months we face the battle of our lives. WORKER and its staff. seeking to throttle our paper. chief need at this hour is money fo rade to do his share to meet the new attack against us. “ a ‘ a the big fight which is ahead. We expect every com- its sales gained a thousand per cent since the Boston censors got busy.| Like all the labor novelist’s other} books Oil is a big seller in Germany, | Britain and other European coun-! tries. Nicaraguan Liberals As Revolt Breaks Out WASHINGTON, July 1.—American marines, under Brigadier General Fe- land, have been dispatched against govia. Despite reports previously received is openly revolting against the dicta- American marines. General Sandino is reported to have levied a tax against an American- We must The Butters refused to pay. General San- dino is said to have seized the mine | upon Butter’s refusal. Sinclair sold an unexpurgated Oil} in the Puritan City, but the police re-| 9 censored pages humorously blocked | U.S. Marines March On) General Sandino, liberal officer, who | is occupying the state of Nueva Se- | | here, a large section of the liberals | torship of Diaz, who is supported by | owned mine, which the owner, Charles | | International protests come daily. | On the, date of the respite came a peable, to Fuller Grom “far-off ‘New | Zealand minérs, and another from | the Syndicate for the Defense of the Tenants of Nice, France. On the day of the respite Fuller | interviewed Frank J. Burke, a glass | bottle blower, and a witness at the | Dedham trial. Burke, who happened |to be standing in the roadway at (Continued on Page Three) Demand Release of 53 Chinese Sailors A thorough investigation of the case of the 85 Chinese workers who | forced their way off the “Rotterdam” |after they were refused shore leave j has just been started by the Ameri- }can Civil Liberties Union, Fifty-four of the sailors, jailed im- | mediately after the outbreak, are still | being held in Hoboken despite efforts }of Ziangling Chang, Chinese Consul in New York, to secure their release. |No charge has as yet been placed | against them. Got $3 a Week. They were hired as stokers in Rot- terdam about 10 days ago for a wage of $3 a week with a promise of shore | leave. When they arrived in Ho- boken, however, the officers ignored their pleas to be let off. Commenting on this Ziang-ling |Chang said: “If American sailors were | in the same situation in China Ameri- can marines would have long since | taken action.” The arrested sailors charge that the food on the “Rotterdam” was atroci- ous, a diet of rice and beans being served them during the entire trip. China and Soviet Union To Be Taken Up at W. P. Membership Meet., Wed. ||. The District Executive Commit- tee is calling a special Party mem- |] bership meeting for Wednesday, '} July 6, 8:00 P. M., at Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 East Fourt street, to |] discuss the present international situation, particularly: . 1. The attack against the So- viet Union and preparation for a campaign for defense of the So- viet Union. | 2. The present situation in China and the prospects for the Chinese revolution. 8. Immediate danger of war | and what our Party can do to | counteract it. Bring your membership cards with you. All members of the Young Workers League are asked to attend this meeting.